Matthias Kellermann wrote: > Hari Sekhon schrieb: >> Matthias Kellermann wrote: >>> Hari Sekhon schrieb: >>>> Matthias Kellermann wrote: >>>>> Hi list, >>>>> >>>>> does anyone know a Nagios plugin for monitoring Gentoo's portage >>>>> for updates? A quick google search did not give any results >>>> That sounds like a good idea and one that I am quite interested in >>>> since I run a lot of gentoo servers. >>>> >>>> Could you please elaborate on what exactly you want this plugin to >>>> do, perhaps I can write it... >>>> >>>> -h >>> >>> The plugin should check the output of "emerge -upD --newuse world" >>> for updates. It's been a while since I've used Gentoo on a daily >>> basis so I'm not sure if the output of the above command shows any >>> difference between critical and non-critical updates. >>> >>> I wrote a similar plugin for FreeBSD where I use portaudit to see if >>> there are any critical packages on the system. This way I can divide >>> between critical packages and normal updates and give the right >>> state back to Nagios (1 = non-critical, yellow / 2 = critical, red). >> When you say critical and non-critical updates do you mean the >> severity of the security package announcements? Ie. whether is a >> remote exploitable service and might be considered Critical or >> whether it takes some previous user account to elevate privilege and >> therefore is not as severe and only "Important" or "Warning" in Nagios. >> >> I take it that you do not mean any old package that has updates or >> the thing would be permanently triggered? >> >> I've just had a look at this and it doesn't look like it >> distinguishes between security upgrades deemed Critical/Non-Critical. >> So I guess it would be an all-or-nothing Critical/OK result. >> >> Any other ideas on this are welcome. >> >> I'll have a go at writing this since I think this is a neat idea and >> I have a lot of gentoo to test it on here. >> >> -h > > critical update: fixes a security hole (nagios state: critical) > non-critical update: just a new version with new features etc. (nagios > state: warning) > > Thanks for your help and if you need any help for this plugin don't > hesitate to ask me. Ok thanks.
Just out of curiosity, why would you want to know if there are new version of a package available? There may be so many packages on a server, that there is always some update. Do you intend to continuously update the system for things which have no benefit? eg. on a relatively light server with 174 packages, the odds of a newer version of some small irrelevent program having gotten an update for some feature you don't even know about is quite high I think. Perhaps that kind of thing is better left for a switch option as I think most people really wouldn't want to be bothered about that. Do you, for example, update all packages on your gentoo servers all the time? I would think that this would destabilize your server by constantly changing things...? What do you think? Everybody else, please let us know your thoughts too. -h -- Hari Sekhon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
